In telling the story of the life of the virgin martyr Katherine, Capgrave uses many of the tropes that mark the enormously popular genre of hagiography as it was written throughout the Middle Ages. Incl. digressions on just and unjust rule; on child care; on medieval English feasts, jousts and pageants; and on the role(s) of women.

An album of rare photographs highlighting the multiple dimensions of the Vlach populations living in both Greek and Ottoman lands in the Balkans in 1900. Published in collaboration with the Egnatia Epirus Foundation.Greek language text. 226 b&w illus, 12 maps.

The elaborately decorated coffin of Djehutymose is one of the central artifacts of the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology's Egyptian collection. Using the images and texts from the coffin along with related artifacts, Egyptologist T. G. Wilfong explores what the coffin tells us about ancient Egyptian ideas of life, death, and the afterlife.

This volume illustrates the busy and conflicted career of Vermigli, who left his beloved Italy in 1542, one step ahead of the Inquisition, to spend twenty years in three centers of Reform: Strasbourg, Oxford, and Zurich. Edited and translated by John Patrick Donnelly. Peter Martyr Library Vol. 5

The Shala Valley Project presents the highlanders in the full complexity of their lives, and unveils a new, deeper history for the region, back to an unexpected fortified Iron Age site. For archaeologists, historians, and students of kinship, of the built landscape, of world-systems theory and sustainability science, and more..

Linear B, a New Outlook by Nicholas A. Massouridis, is the product of thirty years' study of the phonetic values of the signs of the Linear B script. His son, Pandelis Masouridis, has also applied the same values for the first time to the reading of dedications and Linear A tablets from Ayia Triada. English language. 6 b&w illus., 7 tables. Set of 3 books.

The expression 'liturgical drama' was formulated in 1834 as a metaphor and hardened into formal category later in the 19th century. Previously, the medieval rites and representations that would forge the category were understood as distinct and unrelated classes: as liturgical rites no longer celebrated or as theatrical works of dubious quality.

Addresses the needs of teachers and advanced students who are preparing classes on the Middle Ages or who find themselves confounded in their studies by reference to the various liturgies that were fundamental to the lives of medieval peoples.